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Helpful Tips and Tricks for Your Landscaping Project
The National Gardening Association says that most Americans spend a lot for their landscapes every spring. This is because it’s the time of the year when we want our neighbors turning green with envy when they look at our luscious gardens. But Susan McCoy says otherwise. We can actually have our landscapes glowing with beauty without spending much. Here’s how you do it:
Do It Yourself
One of the best ways of saving a lot is doing things yourself. You don’t have to be a garden specialist or architect to come up with something great for your landscape. Container gardening, for example, is fast becoming the latest trend in gardening nowadays. All you need is to buy as many pots as you can and have them filled with various blooms of the same color. Arrange them in such a way that the patterns they make are attractive and eye catching. Experts at your friendly neighborhood garden shops will have lots of advice when it comes to this. They’ll be more than happy to assist you.
Pros for Hire
As much as many of us would want to we may not be able to perfectly turn our gardens into a Japanese water garden with all the water features and ponds overnight. But professionals can. It would be wise to be able to realize early that we need experts to do some things we can never do ourselves. This will help us minimize having future complaints and doing a singe work twice—that could also mean spending twice as much for one single goal. Hiring a professional is likewise not as easy as it seems. Ask around for referrals and get more than just one opinion for the best pro to hire.
Long-term Goals
Major changes in your garden don’t happen overnight. Sometimes it will take months and even years to have your plans realized. Plan your design in such a way that you do every thing step by step. This will help you avoid getting all stressed up planning on something that includes when exactly you should see your first blooms or when your vines are sure to crawl. Be reminded too that you need to have your garden looking nice all throughout the year. Who would want to have major overhauls every time the season changes?
Save Energy
Be strategic enough when it comes to your plans for planting. Landscaping is quite an expensive art, and having thrifty ideas when it comes to designing will be very helpful. Place leafy trees and plants on the south side of your garden and evergreen varieties to the north. This way you will be blocking the harmful summer sun and the strong winds of winter. Strategically placed trees will help you reduce your air-conditioning bills by up to 25 percent.
The right variety of plants can help you save up on your water bills as well. Trees which can tolerate the dry climate will save you half as much your regular water bill. Lavender, Rosemary, aloe, butterfly weeds, and a whole lot more are drought-resistant plants appropriate for areas with warm weathers and climate. The Eastern red cedar, Japanese pagoda, and honey locust are trees that are able to stand against dry weather.
Fall Shopping
All blooms are at their most expensive during summer and early spring. Prepare your shopping list for flowers and plants to buy during the fall season where many are found on sale.
Mulch Beds
Get gravel, stone, or woodchips to make a mulch bed. Arranging them appropriately will help minimize the fast evaporation of water in your garden. Not only that, when placed beautifully—around trees or over your flower beds—your mulch feature can help beautify the way your garden looks.
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